I would quite frankly say that my chosen market-niche as of late consists of finding the “cast-off” code ... that (former) developers are quick to have a “Mission::Impossible™ attitude” toward ... (“the State Department will disavow all knowledge of your actions”) ... but that is very much still in service ... and staging an effective turn-around for that project.

“Life’s been good ... to me ... so far ...”

It would, indeed, be a wonderful thing if a software project ever actually reached the point:   GAME OVER.   “Congratulations, Mr. Phelps.   You won the game.   And the game, having now been won, will most assuredly never change.”   In my experience, “the game” is not like that ... and I, for one, am very glad indeed that it is not.   Because, if it were, I would not have a career.   Life goes on.   Business does not stop.   Everything that you accomplished last year, doesn’t mean one frippin’ thing this year.

---

And as for the “cheap (sic...) Java coders” .... well ... just because your accountant proclaims that something is “cheaper,” does not actually establish that it actually is.   (And if you don’t believe me on this, just ask your accountant what he or she thinks about “a ’cheaper’ accountant.”)